24 AUGUST 1867, Page 3

' Great people seem to have at last hit upon a

mode of enter- taining each other which is a little picturesque. On the visit of the Emperor Napoleon to the Kaiser, the hills around Salzburg 'were lighted with beacons ; the Untersberg in particular blazing into the night, and the cave where Frederick Barbarossa sits wait- ing the hour of German unity being turned into a " sea of flame." "The same thing was attempted on her Maj esty's visit to the Border, the old warning beacons, which once told of invasion, being once more heaped up, and flaring all through the night. The attempt was a grand success, the squires heaping the bonfires -well, and the whole country side turning out to:gaze.